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13 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”

  1. iamr4man

    Just as I thought! This whole drought thing is a hoax perpetuated by the Libs and Hollywood Elites! All true patriots should go out and water our lawns, flush twice, and disrupt any government meeting where they try to deny us our patriotic right to use the water God gave us.

  2. cld

    If you listen you can hear the sound of slot machines calling you from across the water.

    Abandon your life and feed me! Feed me!

  3. D_Ohrk_E1

    I have an acquaintance who's planning a move to Las Vegas. I keep telling him that IDK how the hell they're going to survive w/ dwindling water supply from the Colorado River.

    It's bad enough the region has land subsidence from people sucking out all the groundwater, but the water rights fight between Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Arizona, and Mexico is going to be nasty. You can only recycle so much water under current regulation of grey water systems, after all.

    The cascading effects of insufficient water will be catastrophic. Just be glad you live in a truly coastal city where desalinization is possible, if needed.

  4. DFPaul

    That linked article says the whole water crisis can be relieved if everyone gave up eating meat one day a week (because so much water is used to produce animal feed). That's pretty amazing.

    1. jte21

      It will take a lot more than that, but, yeah, growing hundreds of thousands of acres of alfalfa in the middle of the goddamn desert for export to feed livestock in Australia or China or wherever doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

  5. Vog46

    Well at least they have re-started the Colonial Pipeline (or have begun to re-start it)
    We can live without water but gasoline???? Oh boy.......

  7. Bobber

    My map shows Arizona being across from Needles, and that you'd have to go another 4-5 miles north of Needles to find Nevada, at which point you'd be in Nevada, looking across to Arizona.

    2. buckyor

      My first job out of law school was with a small firm in Bullhead City AZ, and we rented a condo in the hills above Laughlin, Nevada that afforded a view of all three states. Hated the job and living there, but it was a hell of a view.

  8. Vog46

    So we can pump gasoline 2800 miles but somehow can't pump water, in large quantities anywhere?
    Say Louisiana to Colorado where it flows down stream???

    1. lawnorder

      "Large quantities" means something different when applied to water than when applied to gasoline. The last I heard, California consumes about 100 cubic kilometers of water a year. That's 100 billion tonnes, or nearly 300 million tonnes a day. In 2019, the whole USA used about 20 million barrels of oil a day (not all of which became gasoline, but it will do for an approximation) at a bit more than six barrels per tonne (the rule of thumb is six barrels per ton, and a tonne is 10% bigger. That's about six or seven million tonnes per day. In other words, California alone uses around 50 times as much water as the whole USA uses gasoline.

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